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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam
The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.
Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
- An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
- This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
- The following fake company names, fake addresses, non-existent institutions/documents or other details have appeared in scams before:
- "national lottery promotion" (no such lottery exists)
- The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "fiduciary agent" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- "fudiciary" (real lotteries do not use a "claim agent" / "fiduciary agent")
- This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
- They don't notify winners by email.
- You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
- They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
- They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
- They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
- They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
- They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
- This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- myemailaccess77@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
Fraud email example:
From: "Mr. Phillip Hall" <info@lotto.org>
Reply-To: myemailaccess77@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 05:34:32 +0100
Subject: Congratulations!!
UN International Lottery Promotions
Dear Winner,
We happily announce to you the online balloting of email
addresses all over the world from the UN International Lottery
Promotions program held on 21st November 2022 as part
of our end of year bonanza.
Your email address with REF:CR/SW/A-D27511444 AND BATCH
NO:56/1477/LZN won the amount of (£4,500.000.00)four million
five hundred thousand pounds.
In view of this,your winning sum will be released to you by any of our payment offices in Cambodia and United Kingdom.
Our agent will immediately commence the process to
facilitate the release of your funds as soon as you contact him.
For security reasons, you are advised to keep your winning
information confidential till your claim is processed
and your money remitted to you in whatever manner you deem
fit to claim your prize.Please contact our Fiduciary
Agent for verification with the following details.
Full names:
Address:
Phone:
Age:
Sex:
Occupation:
Country:
Mr.Phillip Hall
FUDICIARY AGENT,Payment and Release order
Email: myemailaccess77@gmail.com
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